[151217] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon FiOS - is BGP an option?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Mar 13 19:04:59 2012
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1203131808200.21342@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 19:03:16 -0400
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Justin M. Streiner
<streiner@cluebyfour.org> wrote:
> I realize this might be a bit of a fool's errand, but I'm trying to
> determine if Verizon will speak BGP with FiOS business customers. =A0Thei=
r
> website is relatively lean on details. =A0Everything that mentions BGP po=
ints
> to VZB services, which does not appear to include FiOS. =A0Looking at the
> routing table, I do see several non-VZ ASNs downstream of AS19262, so it
> looks like it might be possible.
>
> If that is the case, could anyone lend any insight to get past the "what =
is
> BGP?" response that likely awaits from their salescritters?
No. If you want to do BGP with Verizon, you have to buy a T1 at 10
times the cost and 1/10th of the speed.
Though I'd love to discover I'm mistaken about that. :)
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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